basically, the clerk for the board of elders says that my letter will be read at the board meeting next Tuesday. He'll get back with me after that.

It is said that the church lags behind the world in trends by about 10 years. Unless the church actively rejects the world's view, how will the church "see" things in 10 years?

Some of these I found amusing, some are outright troubling.

I do want to be able to explain to a 9-year-old boy in terms he will understand why I think it's OK for girls to wear shirts that revel in their superiority over boys

The Urban Institute finds that the children of divorced parents - when removed from the mother's home for neglect or abuse - are often put into foster care, rather than into the home of the father.

The New Gender Gap: From kindergarten to grad school, boys are becoming the second sex

there are more, but these are starter...